Teenagers: Who’d have them? Who’d work with them? Dorothy Max Prior says yes to both… “Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and despise authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love to chatter instead of exercise… They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up food and terrorise their teachers.” Oh, those […]

The 2025 Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus saw the Festival’s biggest ever programme, spread over four days during the May half-term holiday, and featuring around 50 different companies. Dorothy Max Prior weaves her way through, focusing on the healthy number of female-led circus companies presenting work Oh what a week! Sunshine […]

Lisa Wolfe dives in to Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus 2025 – and emerges refreshed… It’s disgraceful. Thirty-five years in the industry and this is my first visit to the mighty Out There Festival. Better late than never. The reasons for making it this year are threefold: I’m producing an outdoor […]

Hold on to your hats, we have lift-off. The seventeenth edition of the Out There International Festival of Outdoor Arts and Circus runs 28th to 31st May 2025 – and  it is the biggest yet. Dorothy Max Prior previews this year’s bumper edition ‘Out There Festival 2025 is especially significant in terms of international partnership, […]

At the crossroads of puppetry, dance and theatre, Dimanche is an award-winning co-production by Belgian companies Focus and Chaliwaté. It is set sometime in the near future, when humanity has failed to adapt to the new environmental reality of climate change. Lisa Wolfe witnesses – and wonders: when will we ever learn? It is Sunday […]